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owing to the fact that the Coiniuittee thouglit that a bust might 

 be obtained, but in this they were disappointed, and also owing to 

 the fact that the first portrait painted was not satisfactory. A 

 second one had been procured, without expense to the Society, 

 which was suspended on the wall in view of those present. 

 The report was accepted and the Committee was discharged. 



The Treasurer reported that he had received from the executors 

 of the will of Ex-President Marshall P. Wilder, the sum of $1000, 

 and also the Large Gold Medal awarded to him by the United States 

 Agricultural Society, January 14, 1860, and by him bequeathed to 

 this Society. The medal was presented at the meeting, and it 

 was voted that the acceptance of these bequests and the conditions 

 thereof be entered on the records of the Society. 



The clause of Mr. Wilder's will relating to these bequests is as 

 follows : 



"Tenth. I give to the Massachusetts Horticultural Society the 

 sum of one thousand dollars, to constitute a fund, the income of 

 which shall be annually offered iu special prizes, as follows : one- 

 half of the income shall be offered annuall}' in prizes for grapes 

 of American origin ; the other half of the income in prizes for the 

 pear. These prizes shall be known as the ' Marshall P. Wilder 

 prizes.' I also give to said Society the large Gold Medal of Honor 

 presented to me by the United States Agricultural Societ}'." 



[The Gold Medal bequeathed by Mr. Wilder was deposited in 

 the safe of H. H. Hunnewell, Chairman of the Finance Committee, 

 as per his receipt on file with the Treasurer, dated October 1, 

 1887, — the Society's safe in the Boston Safe Deposit and Trust 

 Company's vaults being too small to receive the case.] 



Thomas Doliber, of Roxbury, and 

 WAmtEN S. FuosT, of Belmont, 



having been recommended by the Executive Committee, were, on 

 Ijullot, duly elected members of the Society. 



The meeting was then dissolved. 



